 Short-cuts to succeed in life
by Amal Hewavissenti
You are certain to have a great
need to have your own short-cuts in life to save time. Your short-cuts
will definitely increase your efficiency. If you could make a mental
picture of how you wasted time, the time saved with short-cuts could be
used to map out more plans for the future, have friendly discussions
with your spouse and to act very closely with your partner.
Perhaps there may be some activities in your life which you often
find challenging, unpleasant or time-consuming. There are ways to
simplify those tasks and make them interesting. First, change your ways
and analyse honestly how you have dealt with a certain ‘unpleasant’
task. Find out the aspects of a task or activity which wastes time and
energy unnecessarily.
Perhaps that particular task might seem boring and unpleasant simply
because of the way we are used to doing it. Change the way it is done.
If you are without an idea or proper understanding of what you are
doing, get ideas or opinions from your partner or from friends who may
look at it from a more practical viewpoint. This is perhaps the best way
to convert an unpleasant or annoying task into an interesting task.
If you are not good at it or do not have a knowledge of a particular
activity, it is far better to learn it to have a sound understanding
about it. If someone does not know how to operate domestic electric
appliances or to cook certain curries at home, they could get proper
instructions from someone who may have a better knowledge in that
particular field.
 Anybody with common sense can do this. Those who do not use
short-cuts in life to win life’s challenges often turn their lives into
a puzzle and a labyrinth for themselves! Instead, they make a major
waste of time and regret it later by engaging in tasks without proper
ways to accomplish them or being pretty fussy about them.
For instance, even shopping can become a time consuming, energy
consuming, nightmarish experience for anybody if proper short-cuts are
not adopted. A housewife can order goods she wants to buy, in large
quantities.
She can order seasoning, sugar, toothpaste, soap, milk powder and
more in large quantities to effectively save time and money. Ordering by
telephone saves more time. The best way to cut down the existing prices
of goods is to buy them in large quantities.
Plan for what you are going to buy or how your are going to buy
before going shopping. For example, just imagine you are going to select
an impressing attire for an evening party. Before shopping simply focus
on the price, style, colour, pattern and size of what you have in mind.
Decide correctly what you want to buy and how much money you have to buy
it.
This may prevent you from buying unnecessary things and wasting time
with your attempts to choose from a bigger pile.
 Unless one has a jumbo memory, keeping record of everything during
the day and a day-to-day agenda is a dream! Keeping everything to be
done within the day written on a piece of paper is a sure method to save
time and energy and to achieve a sense of fulfilment. So, list out the
things that have to do within the day itself. Then you are properly
guided as to what you should do even though you may be under some
confusion.
These short-cuts in your day-to-day life will make you more creative
and explore many short-cuts to achieve a fully efficient lifestyle.
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